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{"project":"2_test","denotations":[{"id":"15841272-10482783-29500838","span":{"begin":1012,"end":1014},"obj":"10482783"},{"id":"15841272-15025878-29500839","span":{"begin":1546,"end":1548},"obj":"15025878"}],"text":"Life and Entropy: Justification for the Use of Phytomedicines\nThe second law of thermodynamics states that a system naturally tends to go from a state of higher energy and order to one of lower energy and disorder. The same occurs in living systems whose internal entropy tends to increase in its journey through life, going from health, energy and physiological order towards sickness, asthenia (the loss or lack of bodily strength; weakness) and physiological disorder. Illness, however, can be countered based on the quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger's notion that the general change of entropy in an open system, such as a living system, consists of (i) internal entropy variations and (ii) entropy exchange of the system with the environment; i.e. ΔS = ΔS internal + ΔS exchange. Internal entropy in a biological organism, by definition, tends to be greater than zero due to inner irreversible processes. Therefore, the increase in entropy of an open biological system, and thus illness, may be reduced (11) by providing negative entropy from the environment. ‘… The decrease of entropy in living systems is provided by free energy, released when nutrients consumed from the outside dissociate, i.e. at the expense of the sun's energy. Thus, the flow of negative entropy is important to compensate for inner destructive processes and the decrease of available free energy dissipated by spontaneous metabolic reactions. This is the key point, circulation and transformation of free energy, which drives the functions of living systems …’ (12)."}

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